Clean Up Your Room Day

Clean Up Your Room Day is May 10th

Clean Up Your Room Day is a holiday dedicated to making sure your bedroom is clean and tidy. Sometimes your bedroom is the room that builds up the most clutter because it’s not the place that most people see when they come to your house. You should take some time to clean up your room every once in awhile just to please yourself. Clean Up Your Room Day is also the day to do some deep cleaning that you might not do during a regular cleaning such as dusting and cleaning the windows.

“A clean room is a happy room” or as the old adage goes a clean home is a happy home.

Declutter, donate, get rid of things that no longer serve a purpose, bring you joy, or are broken. Start this day goal oriented - what are you going to tackle? What do you want to change or get rid of? What room are you going to work on for the day?

Cleaning can be either a chore that you absolutely despise or something that makes you feel better. Cleaning doesn’t have to be hard. Here are a few tips and tricks to get you started.

Cleaning Tips and Tricks

• Maintain a daily and weekly routine
• Sort things into piles of keeping, donating, trash - pull everything out
• Start with one room at a time
• Make a list
• Put everything back where it belongs each time you are no longer using it
• Install hooks or hangers for things that you commonly use
• Use organizers and labels
• Put some music on to make it more fun - especially if you are having your kids help you clean (you can make it a game)

Cleaning To-do List

Here is a list of things to clean or do to get you started if you are having trouble starting. The biggest tip is to just start somewhere.

• Donate clothes, shoes, and accessories that you don’t wear or use anymore.
• Get rid of the things that are trash
• Organize the things you are keeping and put things away you aren’t using
• Vacuum and mop the floors and carpets, including baseboards
• Clean bathrooms/showers
• Clean all counters and tables and walls if needed
• Do the laundry - including clothes, household accessories (kitchen towels, pot holders, aprons, shower curtain, rugs drapes and bedding), clean your washing machine and dryer etc.
• Flip the mattress
• Remake the bed
• Take out trash
• Wash trash cans/vacuum cleaners

Clean Up Your Room Day

This day is for the ultimate procrastinator. This day is specifically oriented toward cleaning and reminding you that today is the day. Or for the overly clean type A person, this is just a normal day. Whatever personality you have, make today a cleaning fest - clean and organize a space that you have been putting off, or just needs some extra love.

Now get your butt up - make your to-do list and go clean!